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    ARMENIA NEEDS AN ALTERNATIVE ROAD
    Naira Khachatryan

    Hayots Ashkhar Daily
    02 Sep 2008
    Armenia

    Chairman of Armenian - Georgian inter-parliamentary committee Volodya
    Badalyan was the guest of "Urbat" club yesterday.

    "After the explosion of the railway bridge on August 16, next day
    the Chief of Georgian railway administration called us and asked for
    help. The railway had to be restored, to continue the transportation
    of the loads. I appealed to the leadership of South-Caucasian railway
    and they immediately responded," V. Badalyan said.

    The group of specialists armed with all the necessary technical means
    was in Tbilisy in the evening of August 18. "We left by a special
    train and took 3 wagons of sleepers with us. We received a very cordial
    visit in Tbilisy from where we took our direction to city Kaspy.

    The exploded bridge was located 8-10 km from that city. By the help
    of Armenian specialists and the sleepers that we took with us we
    started the reconstruction works."

    The reconstruction works of the main bridge is still on: "In my view
    these works will continue for one month. Luckily there was another
    old bridge just next to the exploded one and it was possible to
    reconstruct that one more swiftly and provide a round-about way. If
    I'm not mistaken, on August 22nd the round-about way was ready. But
    unfortunately that part of the railway can work only by diesel
    locomotives and only by one direction. That is to say the wagons can
    transport loads by two directions simultaneously, because there is
    only one line.

    To provide the transportation of first aid loads to Armenia the group
    decided to move forward to Batum and Potty. "After the reconstruction
    of the railway around 350 wagons of wheat, 68 wagons of petrol, and
    other goods have been transported to Armenia. All in all 982 wagons
    of load have already been transported to Armenia, by a round-about
    way. There were certain difficulties in Potty, I must say that lots
    of problems have appeared immediately after the war state but they
    are almost solved and the railway is ready to return to its normal
    schedule."

    According to V. Badalyan the imported goods mainly belong to private
    companies. "Those who worked actively didn't have any problems. Even
    if at the moment they appeal for help we are ready to help them in
    the reconstruction of the roads, wagons and ports. Anyway at the
    moment there are no accumulations on the roads."

    As for the petrol: "On September 3 2500 tones of petrol will enter
    Armenia. In my view the work is in normal process. There are lots of
    difficulties on the roads and we can't exclude anything, because it
    is a post-war territory.

    In that regard the issue of security is especially difficult to solve:
    "Georgia=2 0is in fact in a "blitz-war". In such conditions no one
    can guarantee security. When we went to the exploded bridge there
    was no one there, even foreign journalists. They asked the cadres of
    the exploded bridge from our group. But at the moment the authorities
    must provide security."

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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